Royal Patronage, Power and Aesthetics in Princely India (Empires in Perspective)

Angma Dey Jhala

$75.54

Publication Date: January 21st, 2016

Publisher:

Routledge

ISBN:

9781138663183

Pages:

256

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Description

Investigating the aesthetics of the zenana - the female quarters of the Indic home or palace - this study discusses the history of architecture, fashion, jewellery and cuisine in princely Indian states during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Royal Patronage, Power and Aesthetics in Princely India (Empires in Perspective)

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